The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-10
The COLOR LlNE DRAWS.
NO C0L0RED BArnEgS AT NAN.
HAITIAN AND BRlGHrON.
They Can Frolic In the Waves at
Vest Brighton and Other Points
Mayor Bradley Condemned.
New York Star.l

The feeling of indignation is still
rife among the colored people in this
and other States against ex Mayor
Bradley, OF Asbury Park, N. j., for
issuing his recent order relative to
the promenade and bathing privi-
leges of this we'll known summer
reslrt which Disseminated against
the cllored race.
The universal condemnation by
the press OF this action, 1t is said,
has stirred up the friends of tho ex
official who meditated the Inaugural
ton OF a movement by which colored
people would be debarred from other
seaside resorts. BY this it was hoped
to force the oolored people to imme-
diately cease their crusade OF uni
versally suffer the results Of q we'll
organized aud general discrimina-
ton.
Among the places intended to be
included in the color line move.
ment was West Brighton, Coney
Island, where thousands Of colored
citizens flock every season.
To ascertain whether the crusade
would meet with any epcourag e me Mt
II attempted, Star reporter visited
Coney Island yesterday aud inter-
viewed every proprietor OF bathing
pavilion upon the beach.
Not one stood by liz. Mayor Brad.
ley's action.
Mr.. Henderson, Of the firm Of
Stratton 4 Henderson, OF the Model
Bathing Pavilion, and proprietors Of
several other handsome business
buildings upon the island. said IL
know nothing about any color line.
All respectable people without re.
gard TO their nationality are welcome
at my bathing aud other pavilions.
When they come here they receive
the same treatment that respectable
white people do. There is, in my
opinion, no difference between a
white mans quarter and a colored
man quarter.
Mr.. Stanley Scoville said. II have
been in business at this place for nine
years. have many Of the most re
spectacle aud aristocratic patrons
here at my baths, for | sell no drinks.
nor have any free dancing. draw
no color line. | only require my
patrons TO be clean aud orderly"
Al Hahn Il McFaddon's bathing
pavilion, Mrs. Hahn said that any
person, regardless OF color, who could
pay his way and behaved himself,
could have access 10 the facilities OF
her bathing pavilion.
Mr.. j. Il. Devlin asserted that he
did not draw the color line, but he
certainly did discriminate against
drunken and disorderly persons Of
any race. Colored people and whit,
people who did not come under thi,
category would be treated alike tC
the facilities OF bis hath houses.
Mr.. Daniel Welsh is an old resi-
denter OF the Island, and has seyera
handsome pavilions. He never die
nor would not now make any dis
elimination.
Mrs. Charles Van Bergen could
see no reasonable excuse for dis
eliminating against people because o
their color.
| Mr.. Warren Lewis treated all
races alike at his baths aud payil.
ions. His only requirement IRON al
classes were decency and rospecta.
bility.
Mr.. ". Y. Barnes, Of the Iron Pier
bathing pavilion. said he catered
TO no particular race, neither did h,
discriminate against any particular
race"
Near Iron Pier Is the st. Nicholas
bathing pavilion. Mr.. Fred Schop
pa, the proprietor, said. 81 hay,
been in the business ten years.
know no difference 10 any man
money, the value being equal, and
know no difference between races
Mr.. james Doyle, one Of th,
owners Of the mammoth bathing va
yilion near the Brighton pier. sale
he in no wise sympathizcd with Dir
Bradley in his color line order.
Bot what IL sauce for the goose i
not always sauce for the gander. Oh,
reporter inferred after alightinI
from the train at he Brighton Hotel
What Coney Island will do, Brighton
Beach will not do. While Yves
Brighton caters TO the masses
Brighton Beach caters to the solec
few.
Mr.. William Blidonburg, actin
superintendent OF the BRIGHTON bath
ipg pavilion, Of which Mr.. John Y
Fitchett, IL general manager, said III,
colored people had never applied 10
bathing suits al this place, but |
they did they would certainly be re
fused. That was the standing, bu
an yet not exercised rule. II the,
did not insist upon this rule tn
house would soon be empty. There
fore colored people would do we'll no
TO apply for the privilege.
Al the Manhattan the rules are :,
strict that even dogs 10 general, o
pct pugs 10 particular, are not al
lowed in the grounds Of the Manhat
tan hotel. A gentleman who ha
spent many years at the island, 40,
knows all about the hotels and thei
rules, said that colored people la,
been served lunch upon the piazza o
the Manhattan hotel, but that piaIE
was in the roar Of the house tina
the front piazza was undoubtedly re
served for white guests, aud whit,
guests only, aud that what is true o
, the discriminating rules OF the Man
haitian relative 10 allowing colorc,
people 10 eat upon the front piazza
aud battle 10 she surf was as true o
the Oriental hotel.
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